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: Joe Garofoli

Snohomish, WA — Was just in Washington state where the polls say that voters are about to legalize same sex marriage. Our stories on our trip are here and here. While there, spent some time with some opponent of the same sex marriage measure up in Sn… …

The new monthly jobs report is out — unemployment ticks up to 7.9 percent as 171,000 jobs were created — and here’s what it will mean politically to Tuesday’s election: Bupkis. As we wrote last month when Team Obama was spinning cartwheels over… …

We know that the Romney campaign disdains fact-checkers — they said so — but now their blatantly false ad about the auto industry that’s blanketing the Ohio airwaves is being called out by automaker executives. The Romney ad says: “Under Presid… …

If you thought President Obama’s attempt to keep a conversation with a newspaper off-the-record was lame, get this: Mitt Romney may not do any network interviews for the final TWO WEEKS of the campaign. None are scheduled. But if true, that is what w… …

With apologies to our western neighbors in the swing states of Nevada (and more distantly, Colorado), this election is again boiling down to Ohio. Mitt Romney, President Obama and every one of their surrogates west of Toledo is there Thursday. Each of … …

Jay Leno asked President Obama what was up with Donald Trump’s latest stunt to try to sink the president’s candidacy — which Comrade Marinucci told us about yesterday. Asked Leno: “What’s this thing with Trump and you? It’s like me and Lett… …

While President Obama is unlikely to release the transcripts that Donald Trump wants, his campaign did relent to a lesser demand Wednesday. But only after being publicly shamed for its lameosity in trying to bully the press. Days before announcing the … …

Nobody in Hollywood has been clamoring to make “Ishtar 2.” Or re-imagine “Howard the Duck.” Why? Because they were BOMBS, that’s why. So why in the name of “Gigli” would Mitt Romney’s campaign — er, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads s… …

For keeping track of issues NOT discussed during the recently-concluded presidential debates, there was NO mention of climate change during the three presidential and one Veep debates. That’s the first time that the climate was shut out since 1988. .. …

Here is how Monday’s debate tracked on Twitter. The peak moment was President Obama’s zinger about “bayonets.” At 6.5 million Tweets, it was the least-tweeted about debate….which means there are a LOT of Giants fans in the Twitterverse. For s… …